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Donald Trump’s popularity might have suffered a hit from the January 6 hearings in Washington but he continues to transfix Americans and capture headlines around the world. So his announcement early today that his Mar-A-Lago resort had been raided by the FBI caused a predictable – and presumably pre-emptive – sensation.
As Rodney Tiffen shows in today’s lead article, the former president’s response to the raid was characteristic. He reached for a big, misleading historical parallel – in this case, the Watergate scandal, which began unrolling just over fifty years ago – and resorted to the paranoid language that featured throughout his time in the White House.
Only time will tell whether the FBI has unearthed material that could block a run for the presidency in 2024. But there’s a sense the net is closing in on the man who did so much damage to American democracy.
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Peter Browne
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Rodney Tiffen, University of Sydney
The former president has been fulminating about an FBI raid, likening it to the Watergate scandal - but the comparison does not stand up.
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Andy Marks, Western Sydney University
The Perrottet government has lost control of the political tempo in NSW – and with an election looming, the result could be dire.
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Catherine Strong, RMIT University
Olivia Newton-John leaves a legacy as a sweet girl-next-door type with a sublime voice, who embraced the country that claimed her as its own.
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John Encarnacao, Western Sydney University
There was something about her voice, her way with a song. But there were lessons to be learned from her music, too.
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Tony Walker, La Trobe University
A new book by Australian photo-journalist Andrew Quilty records the last chaotic days of the failed American nation-building exercise in Afghanistan.
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Anna Howe, University of Auckland; Emma Best, University of Auckland; Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury
The risk of serious disease outbreaks among NZ children is now very real. Some childhood immunisation rates have dropped from about 80% in early 2020 to 67% by June 2022, and as low as 45% for Māori.
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Karin Hammarberg, Monash University
Some IVF clinics promise a lot when it comes to egg freezing but in reality, your chances come down to three key numbers: your age, the number of eggs collected and your budget.
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Sian Mitchell, Deakin University
After shooting and editing mostly completed on the US$90 million film, Batgirl joins a not-so-exclusive list of never-seen movies.
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Politics + Society
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Emma Baker, University of Adelaide; Andrew Beer, University of South Australia
The housing crisis facing Australians has been brewing for a long time. A national housing strategy guided by expert, independent and transparent advice is long overdue.
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Henry Maher, University of Sydney
Neoliberal is used as an insult in political circles, but in Australia, the philosophy is often used with mixed results by both parties
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Health + Medicine
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Angela Brown, University of South Australia
There are no known cases of women infected with monkeypox during pregnancy within Australia to date, but there are such cases in the UK and US.
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John Gilroy, University of Sydney
Reports of barriers facing Indigenous people with disability in remote communities are not new. Let’s stop relying on old excuses.
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Science + Technology
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Wasim Raja, CSIRO; Pascal Jahan Elahi, CSIRO
Radio telescopes produce enormous amounts of data, and we need immense computing power to produce even a single image like this one.
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Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University
In the development of ever smarter homes, Amazon could soon have access to the maps of our houses created and stored by Roomba vacuums.
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Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University
Google’s brief disappearance from the internet felt, for many, like an almost-apocalyptic moment
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Environment + Energy
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Penelope Jones, University of Tasmania; David Bowman, University of Tasmania; Fay Johnston, University of Tasmania
Savanna grasslands are burnt early in the dry season to reduce the chance of large fires later. But it’s making air pollution worse.
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Dominic McAfee, University of Adelaide; Chris Gillies, James Cook University; Christine Crawford, University of Tasmania; Ian McLeod, James Cook University; Sean Connell, University of Adelaide
Only 200 years ago, Australian waters were full of oyster and shellfish reefs. Then they collapsed. Now large scale restoration efforts are underway.
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Mark Patrick Taylor, Macquarie University; Dorrit E. Jacob, Australian National University; Vladimir Strezov, Macquarie University
Lead levels in backyard hen eggs are often much higher than in eggs bought in the shops. A new study of soil lead, chickens and eggs locates the high-risk areas in our biggest cities.
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Education
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Emma Sciberras, Deakin University; Anna Jackson, Deakin University; Glenn Melvin, Deakin University; Louise Brown, Curtin University
We surveyed more than 100 Australian parents of children with ADHD about lockdown learning to see what worked and what did not.
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Tara McAllister, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Leilani Walker, Auckland University of Technology; Sereana Naepi, University of Auckland
New research examines why Māori and Pacific representation in university STEM subjects remain so stubbornly low.
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